Find articles in library databases

Begin with these

Begin your search for journal articles using the following Library databases, arranged in relative order of priority. When you view the information for an article in your search results, look for the Article Linker button or for the words 'Check Availability'. These will link to the full-text article if it is available online, or to the Library's catalog if the journal issue is located in the Library's collections. (For a helpful tutorial on 'How to find articles in Andruss Library', click here).

What is primary research?

This brief web page from the University of Toronto will help you identify characteristics of primary research articles in the sciences.

PubMed, a free National Library of Medicine database, includes over 27 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's.

These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. For help, view PubMed Basics or the more in-depth PubMed Tutorial. Nursing students, be sure to view the tutorial PubMed for Nurses.
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Also includes more than 74,000 videos from the Associated Press, which appear in a carousel in the result list. Updated monthly, this collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research

Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including scholarly, government and general-interest titles with content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.